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New York Prisoner Informant Awarded $7.65 Million In Failure-To-Protect Suit
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2004
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2004, page 17
On May 3, 2004, a federal jury in Manhattan awarded $7.65 million to a New York prisoner who was nearly killed when another prisoner attacked him with a razor.
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Informants,
Failure to Protect (General),
Damages,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
New York.
The plaintiff had alleged in his civil rights lawsuit that prison officials ignored requests to segregate him despite warnings that he …
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